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HIV/AIDS Co-Infection
Data on HIV/AIDS co-infection discussed by N. Ahmed and colleagues
March 31st, 2009
"It has been a decade since the genome sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was unraveled. The fruits of genomic technologies are yet to reach high burden countries such as India, where tuberculosis (TB) kills a huge number of patients," investigators in Hyderabad, India report. "Paradoxically, despite increased cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and diabetes mellitus, TB cure rates in India have been consistently improving during the DOTS program. Does this mean that the Underlying TB bacilli are somehow 'co-operating' with the TB control program implementers' Genotypic analyses of the tubercle bacilli have identified a predominance of ancestral...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-03-31)
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